Senior Manager, Content Marketing

Milpitas, CA (On-site)

$135K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own a high impact content engine that shapes executive messaging and drives revenue through structured storytelling, SEO backed topics, and cross functional campaigns.

  • Content Strategy & Thought Leadership: Define enterprise content aligned to campaigns, product launches, and revenue goals.
  • Editorial & Campaign Orchestration: Own the calendar across brand, demand gen, product marketing, partner marketing, and events.
  • Sales Enablement & Leadership Support: Translate industry trends into executive content and enable sales with battlecards and assets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute Payactiv's enterprise content strategy aligned to business priorities, marketing campaigns, product launches, and revenue goals.
  • Own the editorial calendar across brand, demand generation, product marketing, partner marketing, customer marketing, PR, and events.
  • Identify content opportunities that educate the market, differentiate Payactiv, and strengthen our leadership position.
  • Partner with executives to develop industry-leading thought leadership, keynote presentations, bylined articles, reports, speeches, and media content.
  • Translate complex industry trends into compelling, accessible stories that shape conversations around financial wellness, workforce innovation, and earned wage access.
  • Build executive visibility through strategic content that supports speaking opportunities, PR, and social channels.
  • Lead the development of high-quality content across digital and offline channels, including website copy, pillar pages, blogs, whitepapers, customer stories, case studies, sales collateral, videos, webinars, presentations, and campaign assets.
  • Ensure messaging remains consistent across every audience, channel, and stage of the customer journey.
  • Collaborate closely with Design, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Sales Enablement, PR, and Growth Marketing to deliver integrated campaigns.
  • Develop content strategies that improve search visibility, build topical authority, and increase qualified organic traffic.
  • Partner with digital marketing to develop topic clusters, optimize existing content, and identify new growth opportunities.
  • Continuously evaluate content performance and refine strategy using SEO, engagement, and conversion insights.
  • Work with the GTM team to create messaging and content that supports sales conversations, competitive positioning, customer retention, and partner enablement.
  • Develop battlecards, one-pagers, presentations, email campaigns, and educational resources that improve sales effectiveness and customer engagement.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years of experience in B2B content marketing, editorial strategy, journalism, product marketing, or brand storytelling.
  • Proven experience developing executive thought leadership and strategic content programs.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, interviewing, and storytelling abilities.
  • Strong understanding of SEO, content strategy, and full-funnel marketing.
  • Experience supporting demand generation, sales enablement, product marketing, and brand campaigns.
  • Ability to synthesize complex topics into clear, engaging, and persuasive content.
  • Strong project management skills with experience managing multiple initiatives and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Experience with HubSpot, CMS platforms, SEO tools, AI-assisted content workflows, and marketing analytics.

Preferred

  • Establish Payactiv as the most trusted and authoritative voice in earned wage access and financial wellness.
  • Build an editorial engine that consistently supports brand awareness, demand generation, sales, customer engagement, and partner growth.
  • Increase organic traffic and topical authority through strategic content and SEO.
  • Produce executive thought leadership that influences the market and elevates Payactiv's brand.
  • Create scalable content processes that improve quality, consistency, and speed across the organization.
  • Demonstrate measurable impact on awareness, engagement, pipeline, and revenue through content marketing initiatives.

Benefits

  • Company sponsored Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • 401K, traditional, and Roth with a company match
  • Tuition Assistance or Tuition Reimbursement
  • Unlimited Paid Time off
  • Monthly Gym Reimbursement
  • Paid time off to volunteer
  • Paid Family Leave
  • Complimentary office lunches
  • Opportunity to grow
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Payactiv

3.7 Glassdoor

Payactiv is the best way for employees to get financial relief between paychecks, a service needed by two-thirds of the workforce. We give businesses the tools essential to ease the financial stress of their employees and build a higher performing workforce.First to revolutionize timing of payPayactiv is the right way to improve employee financial health. Our aim is to empower lower-income American workers with dignity. We accomplish this by providing employees timely access to their earned-but-unpaid wages.TechnologyOur social responsibility DNA and decades of experience in payments technologies helped us reimagine the way financial services should be delivered to lower-income workers. Payactiv is designed to help each and every user reach financial resilience and wellness.Implemented in companies nationwidePayactiv serves thousands of employees and industries all across the board—restaurants, factories, hospitals, retail stores, and many more. Walmart is one of our marquee clients.

Founded in 2012
San Jose, California, USA
373 employees (32 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
546.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$43.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.1%
Direct
69.5%
Referral
6.1%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~380

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
1.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$133.7M
Last Raise
$100M
Series C, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2020
    Series C • $100M
  • May 2020
    Series Unknown
  • Oct 2018
    Series B • $20M

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